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Two Romanians Charged With Hacking Washington DC Police Surveillance Cameras Days Before Trump's Inauguration (bbc.com)
US prosecutors have charged two Romanians with hacking Washington DC police computers linked to surveillance cameras just days before President Donald Trump's inauguration. From a report on BBC: The pair are being held in Romania, having been arrested at Bucharest Otopeni airport on 15 December. Mihai Alexandru Isvanca, 25, and Eveline Cismaru, 28, allegedly accessed 123 outdoor surveillance cameras as part of a suspected ransomware scheme. Mr Trump was sworn in on 20 January. The US Department of Justice said the case was "of the highest priority" because of the security surrounding the presidential inauguration. The perpetrators intended to use the camera computers to send ransomware to more than 179,600 email addresses and extort money from victims, the justice department said in a statement.
If they would have declared that they really wanted to interfere with the ingauguration, they would have had some sympathizers.
But as they just wanted to use those cameras for spamming & ramsomware - to Gitmo with them. Daily waterboarding please.
And they should be joining by whover's responsible of those cameras security holes.
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Even when everyone said russians were behind it the real culprits have been always Vampires!
They live in a NATO country which presumably has an extradition treaty with the US and think that hacking outdoor cameras in Washington DC on inauguration day won't cause the NSA/CIA etc to trace them and US authorities to sic the local cops on them.
Then again maybe Club Fed has better food than whatever shithole in Romania they're from.
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Yes ! Send those troops to Rome to show those pizza-smelling Italians that the US cares about it's security as much as it cares about learning geography.
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Security needs randomness. Running your security on internet connected Windows computers is not very random.
They hacked the cameras to show that the number of people in the crowd was much less than the great number who actually attended!
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I bet you've been drinking every night since the 20th January.
Uh what? Protesting is entirely legal. It might have prevented some hooligans from being prosecuted but it probably increased the chances of actual protesters (and journalists, etc) being prosecuted as it wasn't as easy to prove they weren't doing what police claimed they were doing.
Aren't you Romanian? Don't correct him!
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Seriously editors, this is a duplicate. I know most of you aspire to go "work" at Buzzfeed and Gawker, but even they don't publish duplicates all the time.
How did they use that access?
Whatever the purpose of their hack, glad that it interfered with the inauguration and likely helped protesters avoid prosecution. I'll drink to them tonight.
The black block rioted in full view of the TV cameras. Many trash cans were grievously assaulted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Unfortunately these were government trashcans and you don't need to assault very many of them to be over the $5000 limit you need to get a felony riot conviction in DC. Even inciting other people to do more than $5000 property damage is enough
https://beta.code.dccouncil.us...
(d) If in the course and as a result of a riot a person suffers serious bodily harm or there is property damage in excess of $5,000, every person who willfully incited or urged others to engage in the riot shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than 10 years or a fine of not more than the amount set forth in Section 22-3571.01, or both.
So some of them are going to get ten years for felony rioting, sometime in 2018. They fought the trash cans, and the trash cans won.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Jury selection began Wednesday for the cases of the first defendants to face trial in the Inauguration Day riots in downtown Washington, with the judge quickly asking prospective jurors about their views.
"What I am asking you is whether anything you may have heard about that day would keep you from fairly and impartially deciding this case? What are your feelings about the president and Inauguration Day, and will those feelings keep you from fairly and impartially deciding on a case and viewing evidence?" D.C. Superior Court Judge Lynn Leibovitz asked the 70 panelists.
The six defendants, whose trial could begin as soon as Monday, are charged with felony rioting in the Jan. 20 disruption that left several businesses vandalized and resulted in thousands of dollars in damage.
In all, prosecutors charged 212 people in connection with the riots. So far, 20 have pleaded guilty and prosecutors dropped cases against another 20. Trials for the others, in groups of five or more, are set to occur almost monthly through mid-2018.
Prosecutors allege that a group called Disrupt J20 helped plan protests that pulled in participants from across the country. They said some rioters used "black bloc" tactics - wearing all black and hiding their faces with masks and goggles so it would be harder to identify them.
The first defendants to face trial are Michelle Macchio, 26, of Naples, Fla.; Jennifer Armento, 38, of Philadelphia; Christina Simmons, 20, of Cockeysville, Md.; Alexei Wood, 37, of San Antonio; Oliver Harris, 28, of Philadelphia; and Brittne Lawson, 27, of Pittsburgh.
The trial is expected to last through mid-December.
The six defendants face felony counts of inciting a riot and destruction of property, charges that carry a maximum penalty of 10 years each.
Interesting how most of them seem to come from red states - Florida, Philadelphia, Texas were all Red. Maryland was blue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I think a lot of antifa/far left types are rebelling against their Republican voting parents, who I'm sure will be very sad when they end up with ten years in prison. It's a shame really, I bet their Mummies and Daddies are lovely people.
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From the article, it looks like it didn't have any impact on the cameras or inauguration security. It was just infected with a mail-bot that sent ransomware spam, much like thousands of other computers. Although, even the article is written poorly. One part says it's "computers linked to surveillance cameras" and another part says "accessed 123 outdoor surveillance cameras". The first one is probably correct - they got their ransomware mailbot installed on some Windows computers used to access the cameras, and it was sending out ransomware. The fact that they were used to access cameras isn't relevant. However, I think the fact that these are police computers, and police were likely doing other things on them (browsing, email) that got them infected, probably is relevant.
Easy troll is easy. American geography is cliche.
Who are you kidding? Everybody knows Romania is in Italy.
Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.
LOL. Sorry, but when your evidence includes James O'Keefe produced material, and you're not prosecuting said convicted criminal, you have as bad a credibility problem as certain Alabama loser.
Don't worry, you have this genius to make you look better.
What on Earth do James O'Keefe and Roy Moore have to do with this?
It's not like anyone is disputing the fact that Black Bloc rioted on inauguration day.
E.g.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dc+i...
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Days is days weeks are weeks and a month whole month before is not days
Arrested Dec 15 became president Jan 20
Get your story str8
What on Earth do James O'Keefe and Roy Moore have to do with this?
You could have read the links. Well, maybe not, aren't you sworn only to let yourself see that which comes from authorized and approved channels?
Wouldn't want you to break your solemn oath.
It's not like anyone is disputing the fact that Black Bloc rioted on inauguration day.
It's not like anyone believed you when you were crowing the truckers either.
I did read the links. O'Keefe does hidden camera investigations. The fact he did one into AntiFa isn't the only evidence against them. And the charges against O'Keefe are politically motivated bullshit - his sin was exposing the lies and bias of leftist media organisations and NGOs.
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Live And Kicking !
Now we know it is not the east Romans ("Russians"), it is the WEST ROMAN CONSPIRACY !
Who notifies Hillary ?
NSA-GCHQ could have found and shut down many more botnets IF THEY WANTED.
But they are most of the time after something else: Juicy communications of the world's politicians and top military leaders. Why should they care too much about taxpayer's computer security ?
If you think about this, it just shows how horribly incompetent at least large segments of the US security apparatus are.
By 2017 one should know about "cyber threats". The cameras should be firmly locked behind some sort of Private Network/VPN/Firewalls.
Just think what Foreign Intelligence can do by accessing cameras in a capital city. If these Romanian hackers got into it, you betcha the FSB or the North Koreans do it before the breakfast break. And then they can nicely aid their operatives in the city; remotely assisted by a crypted smartphone comms link.
Sometimes I believe that is actually what the authorities want. They want to be able to access ANY DEVICE, ANYWHERE over the network. Maybe they have a gent's agreement to use each other's cameras when they feel a need for it.
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I did read the links. O'Keefe does hidden camera investigations. The fact he did one into AntiFa isn't the only evidence against them. And the charges against O'Keefe are politically motivated bullshit - his sin was exposing the lies and bias of leftist media organisations and NGOs.
Nope. His sin was being a lying bullshit spewer, which lead to him becoming a criminal, your sin, of course, was to believe him. Repetitively.
Any prosecutor dumb enough to allow such a taint into a trial, well, no wonder incompetence is rampant.
But hey, keep relying on them, it's a big sign that you've got less than nothing.
Next claim by Trumpists will be that those hackers faked all the photos that made it look like there weren't 2 million people at the inauguration.
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
They heard he was going to have the biggest crowd ever, and wanted to check it out (but not enough to hop a plane)